Foundation adds another puzzle piece to the Australian Wildlife Corridor

The Foundation for National Parks & Wildlife has purchased 3,700 hectares of old growth forest in northern NSW. It will become part of the public estate to protect its unique natural values in perpetuity for generations to come.

The property Kalungra near Tamworth in New England is an important habitat for the endangered Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby and especially for large birds, which suffer from habitat loss across Australia.

Kalungra will become part of Curracabundi National Park, increasing the land protected in this park by 35% from 10,784 hectares to 14,484 hectares.

This acquisition, funded through donations from Foundation supporters, is an important puzzle piece in consolidating the Australian Wildlife Corridor.

From the snow-capped mountains of the Australian Alps in Victoria to the misty rainforests of the Atherton Tablelands in Queensland, the Australian Wildlife Corridor is a broad band of undisturbed native bushland stretching along Australia's Great Escarpment. It is home to a diversity of plants and animals unsurpassed anywhere else on this continent.

"In the age of climate change Australia’s animals and plants need larger areas to move and adapt to a changing environment. Land clearing is therefore the greatest threat to our species' survival," says Leonie Gale, CEO of the Foundation for National Parks & Wildlife.

"The Australian Wildlife Corridor is our last opportunity to protect a large forest ecosystem in Australia in its natural state. We must act now and protect our bushland and native forests while they are still intact ," she says.

Kalungra is the fourth property the Foundation purchased for the Australian Wildlife Corridor in just 12 months. Thanks to public donations, the Foundation added;

137 hectares to Yarrahapinni Wetlands National Park
204 hectares to Abercrombie River National Park and
80 hectares to Tinderry Nature Reserve

The Foundation has already singled out its next icon property to add to the list.

Snowy Ridge is a block of native sub-alpine vegetation near the Snowy River. Its slopes provide important summer breeding habitat for the vulnerable Gang-gang Cockatoo. The threatened Diamond Firetail, Speckled Warbler and Pink Robin are also at home at Snowy Ridge, and its stands of white box eucalypts provide habitat for the endangered Regent Honeyeater.

You can help protect the woodlands of Snowy Ridge for the Australian Wildlife Corridor.

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